Julia Mata

Julia Mata is an illustrator and cartoonist from Southern California, living in Los Angeles. Her comics have been commissioned by The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post and she has been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. Mata was a 2024 City of Long Beach Professional Artist Fellow; a 2023 Individual Artist Fellow with the California Arts Council; and a 2022 MacDowell Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. She self-published a comics series CRISIS! for five years, selling them at zine fairs and punk shows. CRISIS! the book will be coming out in March 2027 with Drawn & Quarterly.